Pakistan's War, Whether It Wants One or Not

For the media, the country that brokered a ceasefire between two powers it cannot influence is about to discover what happens when it gets caught in the middle.

Pakistan did not broker the April ceasefire between the United States and Iran because it carries genuine diplomatic weight in either capital. It brokered it because Washington needed a Muslim interlocutor with open lines to Tehran, and China, which has its own reasons to prevent a prolonged Gulf conflagration, was comfortable with Islamabad filling tha…